Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Great Beyond
1. Time and Eternity in Washington, D.C., NW 20011
2. Mark Twain’s Great American Death Trip
3. The Lighthouse at Mosquito Inlet
4. Gustav Mahler’s Auferstehung
5. Wittgenstein’s War
6. The Day Ernest Hemingway Died
7. Virginia Woolf’s Farewell to England and the English
8. Rachmaninoff ’s Dies Irae
9. This Way to the Fuhrerbunker
10. Two Tramps and a Tree
11. Uncle Sammler’s Lousy Earth
12. Luchino Visconti and the Passion of Gustav von Aschenbach
13. Toni Morrison’s Book of the Dead
14. The Great Dying in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
15. Against Annihilation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
16. Robert Macfarlane’s Words for the World
Notes on Sources and Further Reading